Practice for the first ‘tele-handshake’ from space
Practice for the first ‘tele-handshake’ from space
The Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka (at the joystick) and Oleg Kononenko (on the screen) train at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) for the first ‘tele-handshake’ in the autumn of 2015. Then, a cosmonaut on board the International Space Station will use the Kontur 2 joystick to operate the DLR robot ‘Space Justin’, who will remotely shake someone’s hand.
